UK: Fury as ‘arch-hypocrite’ Angela Rayner is selling off allotments… but not in her patch
Deputy Prime Minister giving councils green light to sell communal gardens, despite championing them in her constituency
By David Barrett,
Daily Mail
17 August 2025
Excerpt:
The sites owned by councils are protected from development or sale under the Allotments Act 1925 but this can be allowed with a sign-off from the housing minister.
Among the allotment plots sold under Ms Rayner’s watch is one in Storrington, West Sussex, to make way for 78 homes. Two in Bolsover, Derbyshire, are also earmarked for closure.
It comes as councils face a reported £8billion funding shortfall by the end of this Parliament.
Earlier this month, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Ms Rayner had put the ‘nail in the coffin’ of allotments by allowing councils to sell off the land. An allotment holder himself, Mr Corbyn said it would ‘fill many with deep dismay’.
But just three years ago, Ms Rayner visited a community garden allotment in Droylsden, Greater Manchester, praising it as a ‘fantastic initiative’.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/uk-fury-as-arch-hypocrite-angela-rayner-is-selling-off-allotments-but-not-in-her-patch/
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